Point of Origin by Laird Scranton

Author:Laird Scranton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2020-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

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The Concept of Untying

In our early studies, we found that Egyptian concepts of weaving and tying proved pivotal to our understanding the processes of matter and provided an entry point to the references that define them. Now it appears that the concept of untying may play a similar role as we attempt to pull them all back together again into a single, coherent paradigm. Numerous Egyptian word references suggest that cosmological symbolism that relates to notions of heaven and earth, to Barnard’s Loop, to Ganesha, to the shrew mouse, to the concept of ascension, and perhaps even to symbolic images found at Gobekli Tepe, all seem to relate to the notion of “untying.” Ultimately, these words may have as much to do with helping us untangle a disparate array of cosmological concepts as with the actual processes of cosmology themselves. We will see that Budge’s word definitions support each of these outlooks.

Our exploration of this concept of untying begins with the word afekh, which Budge defines to mean “to unloose, to untie, to unroll, to disentangle.” Symbolically, the glyphs used to spell the word read “that which transmits the source.” In this symbolism, we see likely references to two distinct “sources”: the primordial source of the material universe and the conceptual source of the cosmological plan.

Phonetically the Egyptian word afekh calls to mind the modern English word affect. It takes its pronunciation from the phonetic root af, which in Budge’s view means “to turn, to twist, to revolve.” From a cosmological standpoint, these meanings suggest the spiral of the Dogon egg of the world and of Barnard’s Loop. Symbolically, Budge’s spelling of this word reads “that which transmits the spiral,” and by our standard, the word defines the serpent glyph. The serpent is an animal that we associate symbolically with the Dogon Word of matter and with the spiraling egg that constitutes the first finished structure of matter.

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